Christmas Eve 2009

I know I'm a few weeks behind with updating.  I've been spending my time playing with the girls, picking up the house, changing diapers, following Skylee to the bathroom when she thinks she has to potty, scrubbing markers out of the carpet, washing mounds of laundry, snowmobiling with Justin, coming up with meals that everyone will eat without any dairy or soy products (if you have any, please share!), getting everything ready to take to the accountant...you get the picture so I'll stop!

Anyways, here are some pictures of our Christmas Eve.  I spent the day at home with Dailey, Skylee, Logan, Landon & Slate.  We played together & made cookies for Santa, then we spent the evening together as a family at my mom's house.

Hopefully more to come later today, unless I'm busy doing the things I listed above! :)

36 months

In the paperwork process prior to Justin's kidney transplant his transplant coordinator told us, for a fee, Justin could be enrolled in Medicare for 36 months.  We chose to pay the monthly fee & use Medicare, along with our private health insurance to cover some of the costs for Justin's medical care.  At the time 36 months seemed like an eternity.

Needless to say, when I opened the letter from Medicare last week that reads: "We are writing to tell you that Medicare coverage based on your kidney condition ends with the last day of January 2010." It took me reading it a couple of times before I could process that it has already been three years.

Three years that have only been possible because of Justin's sister, Kelly.  Thank you for literally giving Justin the gift of life.  We love you!

2009 Christmas on Hat Island

Each year we celebrate Christmas together with my dad & Suzanne at their house on Hat Island & we always have a great time! This year our weekend started by spending Thursday evening in Bellevue, then on Friday morning we met Dad & Suz at their boat & we headed off to the island.

Our weekend was filled with fun, laughter, memories, family & pictures!  Enjoy :)

Frocadiles

"Look guys.  I see frocadiles out there!"

See was looking out over the Puget Sound while sitting on the deck at Dad & Suzanne's house on Hat Island.  The frocadiles she was referring to were logs floating.  Awhile later when birds landed on the logs she told us "Yep, those birds landed on her & she's gonna eat them."

Blue Eyed Baby

This blue eyed baby girl is the sweetest 15 month old I know.

She knows just what to do to make me smile.

She knows just what to do to make me laugh.

She knows just what to do to make me want to pull my hair out.

But I wouldn't change one thing about her precious little self.

Snowflake Lane

Thursday afternoon we loaded up the car (and when I say loaded up the car, I mean completely loaded up the car) for a weekend full of fun!

We enjoyed dinner, a Christmas parade, shopping & a great hotel in one of my favorite places - Bellevue!  The Snowflake Lane parade was so fun with the girls!!  They danced with the toy soldiers,

caught the (fake) snowflakes with their chubby little fingers,

celebrated as they threw coins into the fountain,

and made lots of great memories!

After the girls enjoyed some time shopping while the boys enjoyed happy hour at a bar next to our hotel, we all headed to bed filled with excitment for the rest of the weekend! 

More on the rest of our weekend soon, but in another post! :)

The dentist

Dailey is slightly obsessed with brushing & flossing her teeth, but I guess she's not only worried about her teeth.

I was giggling when I took these pictures.  She had Justin holding the flashlight so she could see inside his mouth

Then she checked out her work

And she was concerned that she had a tooth falling out, so she wanted Daddy to check for her.

 

The good news is that everyone ended with nice & clean teeth! :)